Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interstate authorities. Thus, when there is a will to get the Government out of business, it can unquestionably be done. To do so, the new Administration will have to overcome all the resistance, obstruction, delay and evasion of the bureaucrat-at-bay. It will have to hack through the plausible defenses which inertia and tradition have accumulated over decades. But the further it gets into the problem, the sooner it will learn that the only way to stop Government in business is to stop...
Climb to the Col. Thus, fully accoutred, they struck at the face of Lhotse. Heavy icing is dangerous on a slope of 30°; Lhotse, in many places, is close to vertical. Wilfred Noyce, a Charterhouse schoolmaster, took two days to hack an ice staircase diagonally up to the -col. Camp VI and Camp VII were established on the face; finally, Noyce and a Sherpa gang reached the col and stood in a clear sky on the threshold of Everest. Here they made Camp VIII...
...longer directs operations there, and though the present staff (John Randolph, Everett Sloane, Jack Lemmon) is conscientious and willing, it lacks the ingratiating touch the old staff (Sam Levene, Philip Loeb, Teddy Hart) had. Even in 1937 that touch was decidedly needed: Room Service is for the most part hack farce, and only as a skillful exhibition of the dodges and makeshifts of show business, a lively conglomeration of classic...
...days later, Prague's rubber-stamp Parliament voted Antonin Zapotocky into the presidency, by a vote of 271 to ). On instructions from the central committee new President Zapotocky appointed as Prime Minister Viliam Siroky, boss of the Slovak party, and, as leader of the party secretariat, another party hack, Antonin Novotny. Since none of the three had any real stature, this seemed to be a stopgap arrangement. It was also a rebuff to Gottwald's ruthless, ambitious, unpopular son-in-law, Alexei Cepicka, Defense Minister who failed to move up an inch. But perhaps Cepicka was a sleeper...
Always on the alert for new fields, McGraw-Hill registered the title Atomic Power right after the first atom bomb, now publishes it as Nucleonics, which is still losing money. But the company has had to wait before for a new trade to catch up with its magazine, and Hack McGraw isn't worried. Said he: "It's another stake in the future. We think it will carry itself well when private industry really gets going in atomic energy...